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Ah, life.
I was gearing up to post the overdue Podcast #108 and some live downloads, but then my laptop—which worked fine a mere 12 hours ago—decided that today it would break.
So it will be 7-10 days before any substantial updates are made.
In the meantime, we’ll keep working on our Best of 2008 lists. Sample list after the jump.
I’ve been tirelessly searching for the perfect holiday treat, and now I’ve finally found it!
Get one your own here.
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Owl&Bear is giving away a copy of the 2CD deluxe edition of The Sound of the Smiths!
I’m pleased to introduce two new sub-blogs here at Owl and Bear: Mainline Media and the Green Pages.
Continue reading ‘Introducing: Mainline Media and the Green Pages’
Ethereal piano-pop band Black Mamba has become the latest artist to sign with San Diego label Single Screen Records. They are currently finishing up a 6 song EP, which will be released through the label on 12-inch vinyl in early 2009.
And while you’re eagerly awaiting the release of their EP, do yourself a favor and go see them live. They’ll be playing at the Beauty Bar with Drew Andrews and Boomsnake on December 9th, and at The Casbah with Tape Deck Mountain and Madison County on December 22nd.
Throughout the ‘50s and ‘60s, country music’s most legendary performers played backwoods stages in outdoor music parks, live and unfiltered.
Continue reading ‘Pure Country: The Leon Kagarise Archives: 1961-1971′
Frightened Rabbit is keeping a tour diary at Drowned in Sound.
In the gauze, marble eyed, waiting there, kiss your mouth to shut you up.
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Boxing - Ben Folds Five
American Flag - Cat Power
30 Century Man - Scott Walker
Gauze - Red Red Meat
What Difference Does It Make - Bobby Bare, Jr.
My Life Is Right - Big Star
We Suck Young Blood. (Your Time Is Up.) - Radiohead
Red Blooms - Calexico
Nightmares by the Sea - Jeff Buckley
And Vandalism - You Am I
Six Months In a Leaky Boat - Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
I Gotta Go Now - The Kinks
Reservations - Wilco
Long, Long, Long (live) - Elliott Smith
Stellar - Dirty Three
Today marks the first Wilco Archive update since this summer.
Paul McCartney is pushing for the release of the lost Beatles song “Carnival Of Light”. The track was recorded in 1967, and has only once been played for an audience. While this initially sounds like great news, I must admit to having some concerns.
Continue reading ‘McCartney Pushes For Release Of Lost Beatles Track’
San Diego veterans The Boyish Charms are nearly finished with the recording of their new EP, to be titled Infinity In Its Infancy.
Set for a March release, the EP will boast a whopping eight songs, which is like two EPs in one, or one slightly-short full length, or even four singles. The ample number of tracks shouldn’t come as a surprise; the prolific band already has six full length albums, three EPs, and a seven-inch in their illustrious discography.
Pitchfork premieres the Uglysuit’s new video for ‘Chicago’ (above).
Most horror movies achieve their scares by jolting the viewer. They grab them by the collar and shake them about with a blood-curdling scream or a quick explosion of strings from the soundtrack. But nobody screams in Let The Right One In, an atypical horror movie that possesses the skill and discipline to engage its audience, not with jump scares and orchestral swells, but with chilling, unrelenting quiet.
Is that you in front of me, coming back for even more of exactly the same?
You must be a masochist.
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Cold Days From The Birdhouse (Live) - The Twilight Sad
Hello Vagina - Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s
Find Me In The Air - The Builders and the Butchers
Poor Little Rich Boy - Regina Spektor
My Dog Was Lost (Live) - The Fiery Furnaces
Out Like a Light - The Panics
John Hardy - Chris Smither
All The Dead Soldiers - The Dreadful Yawns
The Modern Leper (Live) - Frightened Rabbit
Making Waves - Golden Smog
The Staircase - The Sea and Cake
Our Pasts, Like Lighthouses - Rock Plaza Central
Goodnight, California - Kathleen Edwards
Strange Overtones - David Byrne and Brian Eno
Given the recent setbacks in the struggle for gay rights, it can be difficult to view Milk without the specter of those disappointments looming just outside the screen’s borders. The film, which depicts the rise to power of Harvey Milk, America’s first openly gay political figure, serves as a stirring call to arms for gay rights activists, and as a reminder that sometimes progress is possible only through dedication, perseverance, and sacrifice.
